My Week in Review (and Affiliate News).

I've been slacking since last week in posting my affiliate news. (Sorry guys!) So to make it up to everyone, I'll be posting the review links for both last week and this week for them!

In other news, I reached 100 followers today, so thank you to everyone for following me, and commenting on my blog. I appreciate each and every one of you. Thank you. And... to say thank you, look out for contest news later today. :)

I received several books for review this week, and hope to get to them shortly. I'll be having a contest for them as well (the contest is only going to be available to those residing in the USA or Canada though). Many thanks goes to Anne on behalf of Forge for this contest.

My blog also received a new design courtesy of my awesome best friend, Roni! (You should all check out her blog too). She has a recipe blog titled Roro's Recipes. Books and food just seem to go together, so please go check it out and send her some love! :)

Anyway, I'll try to make this short and sweet!

My reviews for the last two weeks:

1. The Hollow - Jessica Verday (3 stars)
2. Going Too Far - Jennifer Echols (5 stars)
3. Need - Carrie Jones (4 stars)
4. Give Up The Ghost - Megan Crewe (4 stars)


Jenn from Book Crazy reviewed a ton of books over the last two weeks, so here they are!

1. Sucks To Be Me - Kimberly Pauley (5 mushrooms)
2. Hex Hall - Rachel Hawkins (5 mushrooms)
3. Arson - Estevan Vega (4 mushrooms)
She also had an awesome interview with Julia Hoban, author of Willow.
4. Some Girls Are - Courtney Summers (5 mushrooms)
5. Far From You - Lisa Schroeder (5++ mushrooms)
6. The Body Finder - Kimberly Derting (5 mushrooms)
7. The Line - Teri Hall (3 mushrooms)
8. I Kissed A Zombie, and I Liked It - Adam Selzer (3 mushrooms)

These all look great! I think I've just added all of them to my tbr list! (Though some already have a home there.) :)

Kari from A Good Addiction reviewed a pile of books as well!

1. All Unquiet Things - Anna Jarzab (4 stars)
She also had a pretty cool chat and interview with Shelena Shorts.
2. Wherever Nina Lies - Lynn Weingarten (4 stars) She is also hosting a contest with the review.
3. Bleeding Violet - Dia Reeves (5 stars)
4. By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead- Julie Anne Peters (5 stars)
She also had an awesome interview and chat with Dia Reeves.
5. Arson - Estevan Vega (5 stars)
6. Exit Strategy - Ryan Potter (5 stars)
7. Hourglass - Claudia Gray (4 stars)

Another slew of books to add to my expanding tbr list!

Kari is also hosting a chat on her forum with Dirty Little Secrets author, C.J. Omololu, on Wednesday March 10, 2010, at 8PM CST/9PMEST. Hope to see you all there!

Sherry from Flipping Pages for All Ages was feeling under the weather, so she didn't get too many reviews done. I'm glad that she's feeling better now, but feel free to give her comment love as well! She had a lot of contest winners too. Congratulations to them all!

1. Going Too Far - Jennifer Echols (4 and 1/2 stars)
2. Fallen - Lauren Kate (4 stars)
3. Sisters Red - Jackson Pearce (5 stars)

I need to read two of these, so they are also being added to my tbr list. (This list is huge now!)

Roni from Roro's Recipes has several great recipes this week.

1. Chocolate and Peanut Butter Marble Fudge
2. Double Chocolate Quick Bread with a Peanut Butter Glaze
3. Fake 'Em Out Ravioli Lasagna
4. Classic French Toast
5. Peanut Butter Cake Bars

Her fudge is excellent! (It's definitely group-approved by all of our friends!) It's always nice to check out her blog because I find a lot of great recipes there that I know I'd enjoy trying out myself.

In My Mailbox -9-, Affiliate News and Weekly Wrap-up.

In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren every Sunday. In My Mailbox is a weekly meme that lets everyone see what books you have received or bought that week.

For Review

1. Mieradome - Kate Hegarty (e-book) (No picture for this book yet as the cover has not been released yet. Review to come in April. Book will be released June 1, 2010.)

Bought

1. Crossed Bones - Jane Johnson
2. Numbers - Rachel Ward
3. First Drop of Crimson - Jeaniene Frost
4. Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand - Carrie Vaughn (realized when I was rearranging my shelves that I was missing this one from the series, so naturally I had to go out and buy it right away.) ;)
5. The Dark Storm - Kris Greene
6. Wake - Lisa McMann
7. Fade - Lisa McMann
8. Evernight - Claudia Gray
9. Stargazer - Claudia Gray

That's what is in my mailbox, what did you receive this week?

Weekly Wrap-up

In case you missed them (though I haven't posted much this week) here are the links for the two books that I reviewed this week. I reviewed my first "verse" book, I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder; and Dreamland by Sarah Dessen. I also organized my books and put them on my book shelves, you can find the pictures here.

In Affiliate News

Kari from A Good Addiction reviewed the following books this week.
1. The Pace - Shelena Shorts (3 stars)
2. Lessons From a Dead Girl - Jo Knowles (3 stars)
3. Hate List - Jennifer Brown (5 stars)
She also had an awesome author interview with CJ Omololu.

Sherry from Flipping Pages for All Ages reviewed the following books this week.
1. Poison Study - Maria V. Snyder (5 stars)
2. The Iron King - Julie Kagawa (5 stars)
She also had a pretty cool blog tour author interview with Angela Morrison about the soon to be released Sing Me To Sleep. She is also hosting a contest to win this book, you can find the contest here.

Jenn from Book Crazy reviewed the following books this week.
1. Incarceron - Catherine Fisher (2 mushrooms)
2. Love, Aubrey - Suzanne LaFleur (4 mushrooms)
3. Gone - Lisa McMann (5 mushrooms)
4. Fallen - Lauren Kate (5++ mushrooms)
She is also hosting a contest to win her copy of Incarceron. You can find the contest here. (She also passed along 5 awards to me and gave us a sneak peek of her book shelves. Thanks Jenn! I appreciate the awards!)

Hope you are all having a great weekend and having fun reading! Let me know what you've got in your mailbox this week!

Happy Reading!

IMM and Affiliates

I was hoping to post this yesterday and I didn't get around to it, so I'm posting it now.

Happy Belated Valentine's Day.

My In My Mailbox post is an easy one today. I didn't receive anything for review, and I didn't buy anything this past week. I'm waiting for a few things and am hoping they didn't get lost in the mail. Hmm. Hopefully they'll come in this week. I'll hopefully be able to catch up on my reading... I've got a lot of stuff out from the library, so we'll see. :)

Affiliates

I have gained some affiliates and I'm hoping to make the affiliate posts a weekend thing. I'll most likely coincide it with or around the IMM posts.


First up, I have affiliated with Kari from A Good Addiction.

She has an awesome blog, really good reviews, author guest posts, and she has a meme that focuses on "the little guys". I think she has a contest on right now for the Percy Jackson books, so go enter! (That is if you want the books.) :) She also has a book forum that opens on Sundays, but the books can be talked about/posted throughout the week that they are featured. If you haven't read the books and it's a few weeks later, that is no problem. The topics are still up and you can discuss them still at that point. Kari is awesome, so go check out her blog and forum! :)

The second affiliate that I have gained is Jenn from Book Crazy.

Her blog is awesome. She has a meme called Music Monday, as well as reviews, author guest posts etc. I love her reviews too. She has an international contest running for the book Undead Much? by Stacey Jay. It ends on the 18th, so don't hesitate to enter! Jenn's tons of fun, so go check out her blog! :)

The third (and last) affiliate that I've joined up with is Sherry from Flipping Pages for all Ages.

Sherry has really great reviews as well. She has a ton of guest author posts, and she just finished up a pile of contests. Well, even though she had several of them finish up, she still has 3 ongoing contests. You can enter to win Firespell and swag, The Body Finder and swag, and last, but certainly not least, she's got a Harlequin Book giveaway. If you haven't already, go enter! Sherry is awesome too, so go check out her blog! :)

Those are all of my affiliates for right now. I hope to start a weekly wrap up post this coming weekend, so look for my posts regarding these three lovely ladies and their blogs.

Happy Reading everyone! I hope you have a GREAT week. Happy President's Day to those in the U.S. and umm, Happy Family Day to those in Ontario, Canada. (Apparently this holiday doesn't extend to the rest of Canada...)